Posted Mar 2, 2012 22:55 UTC (Fri) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402)
In reply to: PHP 5.4.0 released by angdraug
Parent article: PHP 5.4.0 released
"No, mixins were invented specifically to avoid multiple inheritance when reusing code from multiple classes. They only exist in languages with single inheritance."
The term (& technique) is very heavily used in the Python world to perform exactly what oseemann is describing.